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Labyrinth 44 – Helene Wecker

Helene Wecker’s debut novel is “The Golem and the Jinni,” out now from Harper Collins. Helene talked to me about her evolution as a writer through her MFA work at Columbia University. The stories she constructed early on about immigrant families and characters stuck between two worlds transformed over seven years into the final published novel. This book pits two immigrants — a golem from eastern Europe and a jinni from the Middle East — as potential lovers in late 19th-century New York. We talk magic, love, and the strangest thing that ever happened to Helene.